What does self-perpetuating mean?
Self-perpetuating means Causing itself to continue to exist..
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Causing itself to continue to exist..
The committee was self-perpetuating: all it did was hold a meeting to decide when the next meeting was, and consume funds to do so.
It's a self-perpetuating error, now that we've made it, we can't fix it without breaking things that depend on it.
Use self-perpetuating when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Self-perpetuating means Causing itself to continue to exist..
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The committee was self-perpetuating: all it did was hold a meeting to decide when the next meeting was, and consume funds to do so.
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